Timeline for Comments without upvotes are now hidden if a question has more than two answers
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| Sep 12, 2014 at 13:18 | comment | added | enderland Mod | @jmort253 that's STILL fighting symptoms rather than the root cause. The root cause is that SE uses comments different than the rest of the world. People upvote comments here exactly like people "like" or "+1" or otherwise upvote comments on other social media. SE being different causes this problem as well, a meta post about that is going to be largely ineffective as a result.. | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 3:03 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod | The comments with responses shouldn't be upvoted; they should be edited into the post and then the comments asking for those clarifications can be removed as obsolete. | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 3:00 | comment | added | jmort253 Mod | Hmmm. Maybe we need a meta post with some guidelines on when to upvote a comment, @enderland. | |
| Sep 12, 2014 at 0:31 | comment | added | enderland Mod | I think my biggest frustration is when people ask someone a clarification/question in a comment, it often gets upvoted. But the responses in comments often do not get upvoted (which causes what you've said here). | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 12:30 | comment | added | gnat | I see, thanks. That sounds like a known Atwood's argument for introducing expanded comments, a reasonable concern worth keeping in mind | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 12:21 | comment | added | Joe Strazzere | The point is that some comments could make questions/answers more valuable. (that's what comments are for). But if they are immediately hidden, others may not see them, and hence may not upvote them, and thus the question/answer may not be improved. So it goes. | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 12:15 | comment | added | gnat | well then, as long as there's nothing in the comment that could make it into a valuable (part of an) answer, I see no reason to worry. "This site is all about getting answers..." (tour) ...it's not about getting comments | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 12:13 | history | edited | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 11, 2014 at 12:07 | comment | added | gnat | a sure way "to gain a vote" if there's something really valuable in the comment, would be to make it an answer or an edit to some answer, wouldn't it? | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 12:04 | history | answered | Joe Strazzere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |